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      <p>
            If your application is using the Btree access method, and your
            application is repeatedly deleting then adding records to your
            database, then you might be able to reduce lock contention by
            turning off reverse Btree splits.
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            As pages are emptied in a database, DB attempts to
            delete empty pages in order to keep
            the database as small as possible and minimize search time.
            Moreover, when a page in the database fills
            up, DB, of course, adds additional pages 
            to make room for more data.
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            Adding and deleting pages in the database requires that the
            writing thread lock the parent page. Consequently, as the
            number of pages in your database diminishes, your application
            will see increasingly more lock contention; the maximum level
            of concurrency in a database of two pages is far smaller than
            that in a database of 100 pages, because there are fewer pages
            that can be locked.
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            Therefore, if you prevent the database from being reduced to a
            minimum number of pages, you can improve your application's
            concurrency throughput. Note, however, that you should do so
            only if your application tends to delete and then add the same
            data. If this is not the case, then preventing reverse Btree 
            splits can harm your database search time.
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            To turn off reverse Btree splits, 
                
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                    set
                    <code class="methodname">DatabaseConfig.setReverseSplitOff()</code>.
                    to <code class="literal">true</code>.
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            For example:
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      <pre class="programlisting">package db.txn;

import com.sleepycat.db.Database;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseType;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
import com.sleepycat.db.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.db.EnvironmentConfig;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

...

Database myDatabase = null;
Environment myEnv = null;
try {
    EnvironmentConfig myEnvConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeCache(true);
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeLocking(true);
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeLogging(true);
    myEnvConfig.setTransactional(true);

    myEnv = new Environment(new File("/my/env/home"),
                              myEnvConfig);

    // Open the database.
    DatabaseConfig dbConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
    dbConfig.setTransactional(true);
    dbConfig.setType(DatabaseType.BTREE);

    // Set BTree reverse split to off
    dbConfig.setReverseSplitOff(true);

    myDatabase = myEnv.openDatabase(null,               // txn handle
                                    "sampleDatabase",   // db file name
                                    "null",             // db name
                                    dbConfig);
} catch (DatabaseException de) {
    // Exception handling goes here
} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
    // Exception handling goes here
}</pre>
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        Or, if you are using the DPL:
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      <pre class="programlisting">package db.txn;

import com.sleepycat.db.Database;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseType;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
import com.sleepycat.db.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.db.EnvironmentConfig;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

...

EntityStore myStore = null;
Environment myEnv = null;
try {
    EnvironmentConfig myEnvConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeCache(true);
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeLocking(true);
    myEnvConfig.setInitializeLogging(true);
    myEnvConfig.setTransactional(true);

    myEnv = new Environment(new File("/my/env/home"),
                              myEnvConfig);

    // Configure the store.
    StoreConfig myStoreConfig = new StoreConfig();
    myStoreConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
    myStoreConfig.setTransactional(true);

    // Configure the underlying database.
    DatabaseConfig dbConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
    dbConfig.setTransactional(true);
    dbConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
    dbConfig.setType(DatabaseType.BTREE);

    // Set BTree reverse split to off
    dbConfig.setReverseSplitOff(true);

    // Instantiate the store
    myStore = new EntityStore(myEnv, "store_name", myStoreConfig);

    // Set the DatabaseConfig object, so that the underlying
    // database is configured for uncommitted reads.
    myStore.setPrimaryConfig(SomeEntityClass.class, dbConfig);

} catch (DatabaseException de) {
    // Exception handling goes here
} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
    // Exception handling goes here
}</pre>
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